“The most enjoyable afternoon of stories both personal and professional—he will delve into the photography world in the most unusual way. Learning should always be this fun.” —Elaine Goldman, collector of photography and past workshop participant W. M. (Bill) Hunt led a one-day workshop at Aperture Foundation, intended for people who look at photographs and who want to challenge and heighten both their sense of seeing and their ability to talk about what they see. The workshop offered photography lovers an insight into Bill’s personal collection and how he came into collecting. During the first half of the…

Fire in Cairo by Matthew Connors (2015) “Even the most elevated plateau is less interesting than a mountain.” —Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction Join Matthew Connors for a two-day workshop on the process of transforming existing collections of photographs into publishable book dummies. Emphasis will be placed on the process of editing and sequencing images, incorporating text, and visualizing the final book as an object. Connors will present various literary and film techniques—voice, unreliability, plot progression, narrative structure, etc.—and discuss how they can inform the anatomy of a photobook. Numerous examples will be presented…